CORRECTIONS. 
P. 20. Type, under tootnote c, add— 
Dr. Coues has proposed several terms to indicate whether or not a name was 
based on a type specimen and also the manner in which it was published. 
These terms deserve mention in this connection, although they have not come 
into general use: 
Anonym: ‘‘A mere name; a ‘nomen nudum;’ a name resting upon no diagnosis, 
or other recognized basis." 
Chironym: **A manuscript name; an unpublished name." 
Graphonym: ‘‘An onym based upon a recognizable published plate, diagnosis, or 
description." 
Typonym: **A name based upon indication of a type species, or of a type speci- 
men." (Auk, I, p. 321, 1884.) 
P. 53. Preoccupied names, line 4, below the table, add— 
The total number of preoccupied names indicated in this index is a little more 
than 400. Of these, as already shown, about 150, or nearly 40 per cent, are 
homonyms in the class Mammalia. 
P. 47. Geographical names, add— 
Karoomys, Oltinotherium, Phiomia, Rhodanomys, and Saghatherium. 
P. 51. Victorlemoineia. For explanation see p. 706. 
us 
77. Aculeata. The date of publication should be April-June, 1795. 
P. 122. Arsinoitherium, line 2, add— 
Preliminary Note on Arsinoitherium zittelli Beadn., Surv. Dept., Cairo, pp. 1-5, 
pls. r-vr, 1902. 
P. 126. Atalapha, line 3, add— 
Mruter, N. Am. Fauna, No. 13, p. 13, 1897 (type fixed, A. sicula). 
P. 137. Bison— 
Bison, Porcus, Ursulo, Vacca, and other names are quoted by Sherborn (Index 
Anim., 1902) from ‘Edwards, in M. Catesby, Carol. I, 1771,’ but are not valid 
generic names. They are simply the pre-Linnean names used by Catesby and 
republished subsequent to 1758. 
P. 137. Bisonus, aíter line 3, insert— 
Bissonius Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 153, 1843 (synonym of Poephagus. ) 
P.158. Capreolus, line 4, add— 
Compare ‘‘Capreolus Murr, Der Naturforscher, VII, 47, 1775." 
Based on ‘Das sinesische Bisamreh,’ Capreolus odorifera. This reference has not 
been verified and the name may not be entitled to recognition. 
P. 158. After Capreolus insert— 
Capricerva E. L. Georrroy, 1767. Ungulaia, Artiodactyla, Bovid:e. 
** Desc. 719 Plant. etc., 448, 1767’’ (fide SHerBorN, Index Anim., 173, 1902). 
Name given by Sherborn without any species. 
Capricerva: Lat., caper, capri, goat; cervus, deer. 

P. 175. Cetotherium. The first publication of the name is said to be 
* Bnawpr, Verhandl. K. Russ. Mineral. Gesellsch., 1841" (fide VAN BENEDEN 
& GERVAIS, Ostéog. Cótacés, 1880). 
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